1917 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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{{Infobox Football All-Ireland

|image=

|year=1917

|team=Wexford

|titles=4th

|captain=Seán O'Kennedy

|manager=

|team2=Clare

|captain2=

|manager2=

|top scorer=

|leinster=Wexford

|munster=Clare

|ulster= Monaghan

|connacht= Galway

|poty=

|matches=

|previous=1916

|next=1918

}}

The 1917 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 31st staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Wexford won the third title of their four-in-a-row.{{Cite web |url=http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1911_1940.html |title=Football Results 1911 - 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA |access-date=2011-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321030358/http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1911_1940.html |archive-date=2012-03-21 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P130_134_Senior_FootChamp.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-09-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928061017/http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P130_134_Senior_FootChamp.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-28 }}

Results

=Connacht=

Connacht Senior Football Championship

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|date=1 July 1917
Quarter-Final

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|team1 = {{GG|Roscommon|football}}

|score = 2-3 – 1-0

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Leitrim|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Elphin

|attendance =

|referee =

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|date=5 August 1917
Semi-Final

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|team1 = {{GG|Mayo|football}}

|score = 0-3 – 0-0

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Sligo|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Tubbercurry

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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|date=12 August 1917
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Galway|football}}

|score = 1-4 – 1-0

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Roscommon|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Mountbellew

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=7 October 1917
Final

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|team1 = {{GG|Galway|football}}

|score = 1-4 – 1-1

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Mayo|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Castlerea

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

=Leinster=

Leinster Senior Football Championship

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|date= 1917

|round=Round 1

|time =

|team1 = Longford

|score = 2-2 – 4-5

|report =

|team2 = Westmeath

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Mostrim

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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|date= 1917

|round= Round 1

|time =

|team1 = Louth

|score = 2-7 – 0-2

|report =

|team2 = Wicklow

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Wexford

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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|date= 1917

|round=Round 2

|time =

|team1 = Laois

|score = 2-7 – 0-2

|report =

|team2 = Carlow

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Carlow

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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|date= 1917

|round= Round 2

|time =

|team1 = Louth

|score = 1-4 – 0-14

|report =

|team2 = Dublin

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Drogheda

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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|date= 1917

|round=Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = Louth

|score = 2-7 – 0-0

|report =

|team2 = Meath

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Navan

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=1 July 1917

|round=Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = Laois

|score = 2-7 – 0-0

|report =

|team2 = Offaly

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Tullamore

|attendance =

|referee = J Fitzgerald

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=8 July 1917

|round=Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = Dublin

|score = 2-1 – 1-6

|report =

|team2 = Kildare

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Newbridge

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=16 July 1917

|round=Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = Wexford

|score = 6-4 – 0-2

|report =

|team2 = Wicklow

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Wexford Park, Wexford

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=13 August 1917

|round=Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = Wexford

|score = 1-7 – 0-1

|report =

|team2 = Westmeath

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Croke Park, Dublin

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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|date= 1917

|round=Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = Dublin

|score = 0-5 – 0-3

|report =

|team2 = Laois

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Croke Park, Dublin

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=14 October 1917

|round=Final

|time =

|team1 = Wexford

|score = 1-3 – 1-1

|report =

|team2 = Dublin

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Croke Park, Dublin

|attendance = 7,000

|referee = A Rogers (Louth)

}}

=Munster=

Munster Senior Football Championship

{{footballbox

|date=15 July 1917
Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Clare|football}}

|score = 2-6 – 0-3

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Waterford|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Waterford

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=22 July 1917
Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Tipperary|football}}

|score = Won –

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Kerry|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Charleville

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=8 July 1917
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Cork|football}}

|score = 1-1 – 0-0

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Limerick|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Markets Field, Limerick

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=26 August 1917
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Clare|football}}

|score = 0-5 – 0-4

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Tipperary|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Markets Field, Limerick

|attendance =

|referee = T. Irwin (Cork)

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=14 October 1917
Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Clare|football}}

|score = 5-4 – 0-1

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Cork|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Tipperary

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

=Ulster=

Ulster Senior Football Championship

{{footballbox

|date= 13 May 1917
Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Antrim|football}}

|score = 2-2 – 0-4

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Down|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Downpatrick

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date= 13 May 1917
Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Cavan|football}}

|score = 2-5 – 0-2

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Derry|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Derry

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date= 13 May 1917
Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Monaghan|football}}

|score = 1-2 – 0-3

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Fermanagh|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Wattlebridge

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date= 13 May 1917
Quarter-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Armagh|football}}

|score = 0-9 – 0-6

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Tyrone|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Armagh

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=17 June 1917
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Antrim|football}}

|score = 2-4 – 1-5

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Armagh|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Armagh

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

An objection was made and a replay ordered.

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{{footballbox

|date=1 July 1917
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Monaghan|football}}

|score = 3-1 – 0-2

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Cavan|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Cootehill

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=12 August 1917
Semi-Final Replay

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Armagh|football}}

|score = 0-5 – 0-3

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Antrim|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Belfast

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=28 October 1917
Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Monaghan|football}}

|score = 4-2 – 0-4

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Armagh|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Clones

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

=Semi-finals=

{{footballbox

|date=18 November 1917
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Clare|football}}

|score = 2-1 – 0-5

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Galway|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Athlone

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=18 November 1917
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Wexford|football}}

|score = 6-6 – 1-3

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Monaghan|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Wexford

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

=Final=

{{Main|1917 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final}}

{{footballbox

|date=9 December 1917
Final

|time =

|team1 = {{GG|Wexford|football}}

|score = 0-9 – 0-5

|report =

|team2 = {{GG|Clare|football}}

|goals1 =

|goals2=

|stadium = Croke Park, Dublin

|attendance = 6,500

|referee = Pat Dunphy (Laois)

}}

Statistics

=Miscellaneous=

  • Clare win a first Munster football title.
  • Wexford become Leinster champions for a fifth year in a row and the second county (after Dublin) to win the All-Ireland football title for a third year in a row.

References

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{{All-Ireland Senior Football Championship}}

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship